wandering

Example Sentences

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When movement became too random, congestion disappeared but efficiency dropped due to excessive wandering.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Images released by local media showed it wandering in the middle of a road.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Ms. Gerson takes her book’s title from the biblical story of the Exodus—“my father was a wandering Aramean”—to remind us of the itinerant past all humans share.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

"We've all had that moment of wandering into a club and scanning the room with your peripheral vision and being like, 'Are they there? Are they there?'" she says.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

As for our fellow refugees, maybe they had been too dazed, too traumatized, or just too tired to pay much attention to this young elephant that was wandering along with them.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo